Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth, sentence 3

Drop a feather and a stone together and the stone wins, but not because it is heavier: the air pushes back on the fluffy feather much more.

Who acts: you, stone, air · What happens: drop, win, not be, push back · To what, where: feather

This is a sentence of the lesson «Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth» of the physics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, stone, air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 feather	det
3	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drop	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stone	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stone	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feather	conj
7	together	together	ADV	_	1 Drop	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wins	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stone	det
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wins	nsubj
11	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Drop	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heavier	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 heavier	cc
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 heavier	advmod
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 heavier	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heavier	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 heavier	cop
18	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 wins	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 pushes	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 air	det
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pushes	nsubj
22	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 wins	parataxis
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 pushes	advmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 feather	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 feather	det
26	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 feather	amod
27	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pushes	obl
28	much	much	ADV	_	29 more	advmod
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 pushes	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Drop	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drop	imperative	you not said here	a feather and a stone	together property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme
2	win	present	the stone			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is	present	stone		heavy property	tree rules
4	push back	present	the air		on the fluffy feather	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on feather=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:physics:001-why-things-fall.lesson:3.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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